I mean they’re getting away with it everywhere else too, not just America. The US supreme court is corrupt as hell, but (to oversimplify) laws are in general meant to empower and protect rather than restrain the ruling class.

The law is made for us, not for them. Another item on the “IP is bullshit” list.

What’s up with the firing squad thing?

I mean, Iran definitely is right to defend itself against Israeli-American aggression. They’re wrong about a lot of other things, but giving America, Israel and their allies hell for blowing up their country is objectively the right thing to do.

I mean Osama bin Laden def had a point about American imperialism.

Nah, Israeli apartheid has a hierarchy to it. Since this guy has Israeli citizenship he just gets expelled from his home while also being systematically deprived of resources, opportunity and democratic representation.

I mean China is really fucking big and large parts of it not that rich, so that makes sense.

Fair enough.

I mean, only one of these is currently being subjected to genocide, and Western celebrities will be more focused on injustices their own countries are helping.

Your paragraph about the formation of Israel is mostly popular myth. Most of the Jews who were there for the founding of Israel were already there by WWII (mostly but not entirely from Eastern Europe), and from there the really big infusion was from the Middle East. A lot of holocaust survivors did go to Israel, but they weren’t “put” there and it remained illegal under the British mandate. Zionist colonization of Palestine starts in the late 19th century and really gets going after Britain wins WWI; WWII was important insofar as it exhausted the British Empire and paved the way for decolonization, but it didn’t result in a massive infusion of new people. Zionism was for the most part a Jewish project that got external cooperation, not a pan-European plan to resettle Jews (the Allies had planned to resettle Holocaust survivors in their countries of origin).

Turkey is notorious about this. Iran is currently droning Kurds in Iraq. Syria just fucked over the AANES which had a thriving multicultural system with Kurds as a foundational part.

Not sure about Turkey, but what does Iran droning Kurds in Iraq look like? And Syria absorbing the AANES doesn’t seem like doing much to Kurdish identity per se?

It’s been a consist zone of conflict for the western powers and in the middle east for over 2000 years.

Uh… no? For the most part pre-20th century Palestine was a backwater nobody really cared about (the Crusades being the big exception).

Bruh a based elected official? In this economy?

It makes sense if opting out means you don’t get national insurance.

I mean BLM didn’t achieve all of its goals, but it was partially effective, but also nobody (AFAIK) went on strike during BLM. The French protests obviously have more juice here.

It’s silly to act like there isn’t enough land for everyone when we’re not really using Utah.

A Utah without a people for a people without a Utah.

I’m not against shitting on Americans, but we should probably wait until the French get something done before doing so.

I find the idea that nuclear proliferation to theocratic despots could in any way be a positive development a little… difficult to believe.

It’d definitely restrain Israel and crew, and the Iranian regime isn’t dumb enough to actually use a nuke.

It’s bad enough with the nuclear states we have now - we don’t need another Israel in the region.

That’s basically reasoning from vibes so there’s really nothing for me to say here without a thought process I can respond to, but also for example the Soviets getting nukes was definitely an improvement over only America having them. Deterrence works.

True, if they get a nuclear weapon (which they 100% should do) they’ll probably aim it at Abu Dhabi and Riyadh and let the implications do their work.

Definitely some irony in there.